Waste management challenges in Lilongwe

Lilongwe is the largest city in Malawi with 670,000 people growing by a rate of 4.3 percent per year, one of the makes fastest growing regions in the country. But with that growth comes major challenges dealing with waste management.

The city has experienced the influx of rural immigration in the recent past years due to anticipation of good life in urban areas through employment and businesses; no wonder the city registers an urbanisation rate of about eight percent making it one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

Puma Energy to acquire BP Malawi

Puma Energy, a Swiss-based energy is to acquire BP Malawi following the company’s interest to buy off the remaining 50 percent shares of the country’s largest fuel provider which are owned by Press Corporation Limited (PCL).


Puma Energy, a subsidiary of a Dutch-based Trafigura Limited oil group, already bought off the other 50 percent shares from BP Malawi.

Malawi sets to fight corruption in HIV funds

The Malawi National AIDS Commission (NAC) has launched the fraud and corruption prevention strategy to create awareness of corruption and fraud issues amongst all implementers of HIV/AIDS activities.

Chairman of NAC Archbishop Emeritus Bernard Malango said the policy is one of the key products of the cooperation that was facilitated by the MOU which they signed with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). 

MTV awards: P-Square tops nominations

Nigerian artists, P-Squre has dominated the nominations list for the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA), according to the press release from TV Networks Africa and Zain.


The MAMA 2010 is sponsored by Zain in association with MasterCard. Arik Air is the official airline partner of the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain

Majete Wildlife Reserve-Malawi’s best kept secret

Seventy kilometres southwest of Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, lies Majete Wildlife Reserve (MWR) which covers nearly 70, 000 hectors of thriving wilderness.

This is the park which government abandoned after heavy poaching by the people from the surrounding villages, thanks to African Parks, which came to the rescue in 2003.

Traveling through the virgin mother Malawi

Born 24 years ago and raised in Malawi, I never realised how beautiful my mother land is, full of the wonderful scenery, the culture so absolute and full of lovely people.

Every year from September 19 -25, Malawians observe tourism week and it is for this reason I embarked on an adventure of discovering our tinny-jewel like nation.

On this one week journey, I felt no longer like a citizen; I really was a tourist in my own country-to find out what makes Malawi the ‘Warm Heart of Africa.’

Spreading HIV/AIDS message later than the virus-the endangered lives

“HIV is like fire, if you do not stroke a fire it will die out. However, fire would not die off it is continually given dry firewood,” founder and father of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda

Since the advent of HIV/AIDS in Malawi in 1983, the virus continues to spread at a rocket pace with people of all sectors dancing to the tunes of the pandemic in one way or the other.

Good riddance water tears, welcome wind smiles-Malawi electricity woes

Kamkwamba on his wind mill

It is 7.30 pm. I am home and writing an assignment on my computer which is due in the next two days.
This location is in the southern part of Lilongwe city, CCDC to be precise. The area is habituated by the people who are mostly civil servants. People who year-in and year-out tussle with the country’s leadership pleading for better wages.

Our house is a small one with only two bedrooms and without a kitchen. But it manages to accommodate the four of us; me, my father, a young brother and sister. We managed to divide the sitting room with a mat to make it a three bed-roomed house.

Waste management challenges at Lilongwe, Malawi

Lilongwe is the largest city in Malawi with 670,000 people growing by a rate of 4.3 percent per year, one of the makes fastest growing regions in the country. But with that growth comes major challenges dealing with waste management.

THE NEXT KING

 “Please don’t spoil this wonderful ceremony, we must behave so that we appease our ancestors because our next king’s guidance and wisdom rely upon them” Biyere- the late king’s Nduna told a group of drunkards who were making unnecessary noise.

 “You are right, as the air to a bird, the sea to a fish and culture to a man so is the ancestors power to our king-to-be” echoed Kanjombi, namkungwi wa kumadzi (advisor at the Nyau cult)  .

She is called Nasuluma

Dear Uncle Tentiliano,

I have no doubt that you have been waiting for so long to hear from me for the past three months. I had to sit down and plan my course of action. You know Uncle; I had to blow hot and cold. Being a man who has never gone on such task, I needed to take shape. I know that you are having a belly laugh thinking that I am chaff but I feel you know how much it takes to complete that labour.  

Uncle, to find someone to be called a lover is not an easy task. It needs patience and perseverance. That is the main reason why it took me so long living a lonely life.  I had first to know which direction the wind is going and gird myself for the next move.

Climate change, a burden to a poor farmer

Mwalimba is an 80 year-old farmer in Gomani Village, T/A Simphasi in Mchinji district, 100km away from Malawi’s capital City, Lilongwe. She talks about being affected by the climate.

She does not know what climate change is about yet, she is among the farmers that complain of poor harvests because the rains has become unpredictable.

Climate change: How the poor rural people are responding?

Climate change is one of the most serious threats to poor rural people, putting them at risk of hunger which in turn makes it very difficult to progress out of extreme poverty.

Malawi is an already severely poor country facing an AIDS pandemic, chronic malnutrition, declining soil fertility, shortages of land and inadequate agricultural policies.

Malawi going for DDT to fight malaria

Malawi may soon start using DDT, an organochlorine pesticide, as a precaution in its fight against malaria in the country.

Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health Chris Kang’ombe said DDT may be an option in Lilongwe during the launch of this year’s anti-malaria campaign themed, “Malungo zii (Kick out malaria)”.